B + W 40.5mm Basic 486M MRC UV/IR Cut Filter

Let the B+W 40.5mm Basic 486M MRC UV/IR Cut Filter enhance your digital photography experience by effectively combating unwanted UV and infrared components. This high-quality filter features a sharp cut-off absorption, ensuring that your images are free from color casts and blurring, a common issue with digital cameras where the IR barrier in front of the image sensor exhibits residual transmittance.

Unlike other filters that rely on absorption through colored glass, the B+W 486 UV-/ IR-Cut filter utilizes the principle of interference. This is achieved through a series of wafer-thin, partially reflecting layers, each with a meticulously calculated thickness. This innovative design ensures optimal performance and superior image quality.

The B+W 486 UV-/ IR-Cut filter is clear and colorless, ensuring that there is no need for any increase in exposure. Its unobtrusive design allows it to be left on the lens permanently, serving as a protective filter, safeguarding your valuable lens from potential damage.

Featuring a Multi-Resistant Coating (MRC), the B+W 486 UV-/ IR-Cut filter offers enhanced resistance to scratches, water, and dirt. This ensures that your filter remains in top condition, even in challenging shooting environments.

Designed to work ideally with lenses having an aperture angle up to 60 degrees, the B+W 486 UV-/ IR-Cut filter ensures consistent color reproduction across your images. However, it's important to note that as the angle of the incident light increases, the color influence tends to drift towards blue. This is a physical principle inherent in such interference filters, and for wide-angle lenses with an aperture angle larger than 60 degrees, the color reproduction at the edge of the image may lean towards bluish.

In conclusion, the B+W 40.5mm Basic 486M MRC UV/IR Cut Filter is a valuable addition to your photography kit, offering superior protection and enhanced image quality.